There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.
HIPPOCRATES…all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure
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A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession.
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Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.
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All disease begins in the gut.
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Timidity betrays want of powers, and audacity a want of skill. There are, indeed, two things, knowledge and opinion, of which the one makes its possessor really to know, the other to be ignorant.
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Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. …
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The physician treats, but nature heals.
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Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.
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Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.
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If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.
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Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.
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Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.
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Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.
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